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  2. List of circulatory system conditions - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion.. There are many conditions of or affecting the human circulatory system — the biological system that includes the pumping and channeling of blood to and from the body and lungs with heart, blood and blood vessels.

  3. Costodiaphragmatic recess - Wikipedia

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    This can push the lung upwards, resulting in "blunting" of the costophrenic angle. The posterior angle is the deepest. Obtuse angulation is sign of disease. Chest x-ray is the first test done to confirm an excess of pleural fluid. The lateral upright chest x-ray should be examined when a pleural effusion is suspected.

  4. List of syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease; Legius syndrome; Leiner's disease; Lelis syndrome; Lemierre's syndrome; Lennox–Gastaut syndrome; Lenz microphthalmia syndrome; Lenz–Majewski syndrome; Leriche's syndrome; Leschke syndrome; Lesch–Nyhan syndrome; Lethal congenital contracture syndrome; Lethal white syndrome

  5. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

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    Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) ALD Alcoholic liver disease: ALI Acute lung injury: ALL Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia: ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: AMD Age-related macular degeneration: AML Acute myelogenous leukemia: AN Anorexia nervosa: AOCD

  6. Glaucoma - Wikipedia

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    Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can lead to damage of the optic nerve.The optic nerve transmits visual information from the eye to the brain. Glaucoma may cause vision loss if left untreated.

  7. Acute coronary syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a syndrome due to decreased blood flow in the coronary arteries such that part of the heart muscle is unable to function properly or dies. [1] The most common symptom is centrally located pressure-like chest pain , often radiating to the left shoulder [ 2 ] or angle of the jaw, and associated with nausea and ...

  8. Coronary artery bypass surgery - Wikipedia

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    Other commonly employed sources are the right internal mammary artery, the radial artery, and the great saphenous vein. Effective ways to treat chest pain (specifically, angina, a common symptom of CAD) have been sought since the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1960s, CABG was introduced in its modern form and has since become the main ...

  9. Acute and obtuse triangles - Wikipedia

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    An obtuse triangle (or obtuse-angled triangle) is a triangle with one obtuse angle (greater than 90°) and two acute angles. Since a triangle's angles must sum to 180° in Euclidean geometry , no Euclidean triangle can have more than one obtuse angle.